Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

World Art
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2013

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Arthur, Brid, “Putting Lhasa on the Map: Eighteenth–Twentieth-Century Depictions of the Capital’s Monuments” (Ohio State, J. Huntington)

Backus, Irene, “Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence” (Chicago, R. Zorach)

Barry, Kristin, “Framing the Ancients: Modern Architectural Interventions at Ancient and Historic Sites” (Penn State, E. Walters)

Botchkareva, Anastassiia, “Representational Realism in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Changing Visual Cultures in Safavid Iran and Mughal India, 1580–1750” (Harvard, D. Roxburgh, G. Necipoglu)

Brungardt, Christina, “On the Fringe of Fascism: An Examination of the Relationship between Leftish Italian Futurists and the Russian Avant-Garde” (CUNY, E. Braun)

Ferrero, Sebastian, “Interprétation, transfiguration, et réélaboration du paysage du nouveau monde dans l’imagerie Européene et Andine à l’époque moderne” (University of Montreal, L. de Moura Sobral)

Garon, Sandrine, “L’artiste ‘géographiquement pluriel’ au coeur du réseau. Étude de l’impact de la mobilité internationale sur les représentations symboliques des nations canadiennes (1880–1920)” (University of Montreal, L. Vigneault)

Gautier, Viviane, “Le Louvre Abou Dabi: Dans quels espaces? Les représentations géopolitiques, patrimoniales, muséales, et touristiques” (University of Montreal, C. Bernier, M.-J. Zahar)

Getzelman, Sarah, “Imaging the Dalai Lama: Incarnations in Art and Practice” (Ohio State, S. Huntington)

Glebova, Aglaya, “Visualizing Stalinism: Photography of Early Gulags” (UC Berkeley, A. Wagner)

Occhietti, Raphaelle, “La salle de finance et ses action: De Goya à l'art contemporain” (University of Montreal, T. Porterfield)

Parkinson, Nicholas, “The Image of the North: The Critical Reception of Nordic Art in France, 1878–1900” (Stony Brook University, J. Rubin)

Richer, Angele, “Image de la nation. Le musée national des beaux-arts du Québec” (University of Montreal, E. Dubuc)

Sytsma, Janine, “Departures: A Critical Study of the Ona Group and the Spread of Onaism” (Wisconsin, Madison, H. Drewal)

Tanta, Mirela, “State Propaganda or Sites of Resistance: Socialist Realism in Romania, 1945–1989” (UIC, H. Higgins)

Trottier, Maude, “La sculpture comme objet théorique: Approche transhistorique d’un refoulé de l’histoire de l’art” (University of Montreal, J. Lamoureux)